If you're reading this, I expect the quote about grief touched you in some way. It resonated with me. In his book, Weller uses the word "ground" repeatedly to depict grief — as a leveling of self or a humbling to the ground, and as a grounding or centering. It was more than a decade ago, at dawn on a spring morning, the day after I confronted betrayal in my marriage, a truth I knew my soul couldn’t bear, that I woke up and ran into my backyard in my nightgown and fell to the ground. It felt like all the pieces of me came apart at once, and so I collapsed onto a patch of grass, silently sobbing and clinging to the earth. Reading Weller's words echoed my experience profoundly. On this page, I refrain from adding personal commentary beyond what I've just shared. Here, I simply provide resources for navigating grief, hoping they may offer support as you find your way. — Jenny

The image is of that same patch of ground this year in the same season.

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“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”

— ANNE LAMOTT

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Sorry For Your Loss is a streamable series that captures grief with an authenticity that is emotionally intense, yet still watchable.

We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it. Nora McInerny |TEDWomen 2018